mytho-
combining form
myth
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mythogenesis
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mythography
mytho-
Word Origin
1
a combining form representing myth, in compound words:
mythogenesis.
Origin
< Greek, combining form of mŷthos myth
Related Words
- mythoclast
- mythogenic
- mythographer
- mythography
- mythologem
- mythologist
mytho-a word element meaning 'myth.'
[Greek, combining form of mythos]mytho-
combining form
- of or relating to myth表示“（与）神话（有关）的”：
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mythography.
词源
from Greek muthos, or from MYTH .
1890 Sat. Rev. 4 Oct. 392To give the *mythoclast his due.
1881 Spectator 15 Oct. 1309/2 In this *mythoklastic age.
1887 Mind XII. 623 The cause of the extraordinary development in man of ‘*mythogenesis’.
1889 N. & Q. Ser. vii. VII.Advt. p. iv,The *mythogonic hypothesis presented by Professor Max Müller and other philologists.
Ibid. ,The author draws a sharp distinction between *mythogony and mythology.
1841 Fraser's Mag. XXIV. 129In the *mytho⁓heroic poems, the great Heraclide family enjoyed all that fame which mythic poetry can give.
1878 T. Sinclair Mount vii. 167æschylus..is almost wholly epical or mytho⁓heroic.
1838 T. Keightley Mythol. (ed. 2) 304Grecian history—of which the..*mytho-historic portion commences with the Dorian migration.
1954 Encounter Dec. 77/2 treated as the way to that abolition of ‘injustice’ whose necessary existence in any human society these *mythomanes find intolerable. [ Socialism is to be]
1959 Ibid. June 79/1The mythomanes seized the new means of communication.
1962 Punch 26 Sept. 464/3 A mythomane tart with a line in imaginary family grandeur.
1975 Times 2 May 11/8 Paper Tiger.. is a modest..entertainment, with David Niven as a pathological mythomane who..finds himself obliged to live up to his fantasies.
1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. ,*Mythomania.
1955 Antiquity XXIX. 197 Deception for the mere fun of deceiving—a sort of mythomania.
1958 New Statesman 6 Sept. 311/1 As for the formal principle on which the New Critics plumed themselves, it cannot be said that they ever applied it with any consistency or finesse; and lately it has been giving way to mythomania and symbol-hunting.
1973 Times Lit. Suppl. 30 Nov. 1476/1It proves to have no resemblance to the sculpture, and the assertion is seen as a manifestation of mythomania.
1857 Fraser's Mag. LVI. 88 note,When it is the fashion to insist that almost every one and everything bygone is a myth..we would humbly remind the *mythomaniacs that . [ etc.]
1922 W. S. Maugham Writer's Notebk. (1949) 186She is not only a liar, she is a mythomaniac who will invent malicious stories that have no foundation in fact.
1961 Times 15 June 17/3 Mary ends up sadder, if less mythomaniac, than she began.
1973 C. McCarry Miernik Dossier (1974) 90,I regarded Miernik as a mythomaniac... I did not believe in the existence of the sister.
1890 Sat. Rev. 4 Oct. 392Even Elia's dissertation on the origin of the crackling is gravely brought under the..*mythometer of this degree of positive critic.
1882 Amer. Naturalist Oct. 829Mythography... Mythology... *Mythonomy.
1890 Cent. Dict. ,Mythonomy, the deductive and predictive stage of mythology.
1939 C. S. Lewis Lett. (1966) 163We now need a new word for ‘the science of the nature of myths’... Would ‘mythonomy’ do?
1838 Blackw. Mag. XXXIV. 716The *mythopastoral class of Sanscrit plays.
1731 Bailey vol. II, *Mythoplasm, a fabulous narration of history.
1959 H. Bloom Shelley's Mythmaking i. 8,I do not claim that all of Shelley's major and mature poems are *mythopoeic, especially in the precise and narrow sense of mythopoeia that I insist upon here.
1970 Listener 30 July 154/2 Science is not immune to mythopoeia.
1927 J. S. Huxley Relig. without Revelation vi. 191They possess a vague and elastic *mytho-theology.
1932 R. Knox Broadcast Minds iv. 72They had ancestors..to whom that mytho-theology was real.
ORIGIN: from Greek muthos or directly from myth -o-
mytho-myth-
Prefix
- myth
Etymology
From Ancient Greek μῦθος (mûthos)
Derived terms
English words prefixed with mytho-